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Finance committee backs one-year, no-cost extension for Elm City Compass contract with Yale
Summary
The finance committee voted to recommend a one-year, no-cost extension of Yale University’s contract to operate the Elm City Compass community crisis response pilot through June 30, 2026, citing continued service delivery and additional time for evaluation and sustainability planning.
The New Haven Finance Committee on Jan. 13 recommended a one-year, no-cost extension of the city’s multi-year agreement with Yale University to continue operating Elm City Compass, a community-based crisis response team embedded in the city’s 911 system.
The extension would push the contract end date from June 30, 2025, to June 30, 2026, using residual funds from earlier contract years so the city would incur no additional cost this fiscal year. Committee members voted to forward the item with a favorable recommendation to the full Board of Alders.
The Elm City Compass team pairs a social worker and a peer with lived experience with emergency dispatchers so responses to mental-health, substance-use and housing-related crises can be led by social-service professionals rather…
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